PHEindicatormethods v1.1.3.9000

PHEindicatormethods v1.1.3

Minor amendments to package testing scripts to work on platforms using clang as compiler.
Updates will not affect end users using other platforms.

Minor amendments to package testing scripts to work on platforms using clang as compiler. Updates will not affect end users using other platforms.

The following changes may affect backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the package:

phe_proportion: Replaced logical PERCENTAGE argument with a numeric MULTIPLIER argument to enable proportions to be expressed more flexibly (eg per 1000). Default is now multiplier = 1 which gives equivalent output to the previous default of percentage = FALSE. There is loss of backwards compatibility where the percentage argument has previously been specified in the function call - please replace 'percentage=TRUE' with 'multiplier=100' and 'percentage=FALSE' with 'multiplier=1'.
all functions using the TYPE argument: Altered the default value for the TYPE argument from 'standard' to 'full'. This may affect backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the package - where type has not been specified output will now contain additional metadata columns - to remove these please specify type = "standard" as a function argument.
byars_lower(), byars_upper(), wilson_lower() and wilson_upper() functions have been moved to the package utilities and are less readily available to be used as stand-alone functions within the package. These functions are intended to be called using other 'phe-' prefixed package functions.

The following changes will not affect backwards compatibility with earlier versions of the package:

phe_life_expectancy() function added for calculation of life expectancy at different ages based on population and death data
phe_quantile() function added for assigning data to quantiles
phe_sii() function added for calculation of slope index of inequality and relative index of inequality
phe_proportion() and phe_rate() functions now return aggregate data when grouped data is passed
Altered handling of NA values in phe_proportion(), phe_rate() and phe_mean() functions to enable results to be returned for the records which do not contain invalid NAs
Altered handling of NA values in phe_dsr() function such that NA values in the age-specific count data are assumed to be equal to zero and no longer cause the function to error
Altered handling of NA values in phe_isr() and phe_smr() functions such that NA values in the age-specific count, age-specific population and/or reference count data are assumed to be equal to zero and no longer cause the functions to error

This is the first release of this package to CRAN